Cascadia Wikimedians,
If any of you collaborate with, or have an interest in working with, OpenStreetMap, this may interest you. OpenStreetMap Seattle will make a bid for the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference. If you want to help with the bid, you can find the meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/ or contact Clifford Snow.
In comments for the last Seattle WP:Meetup for August '14, *Blue Rasberry* wrote that there was hope that in 2-3 years there could be a meta:WikiConference USA https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA in Seattle or Portland. If any of us are so inclined, perhaps assisting for this bid for the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference, & then the subsequent preparation should the bid succeed, would help prepare us in our efforts to bring WikiConference USA to Cascadia.
Peaceray
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Clifford Snow clifford@snowandsnow.us Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: [opensource-107] Bid to host the 2015 State Of The Map-US Conference To: opensource-107-announce@meetup.com
We are going to prepare a bid to host the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference here. The request for bids will be made by the US chapter in late September and due by mid November. Everyone's help will be needed to craft a winning bid. I've only attended two SOTM-US conferences, but really enjoyed both. The conference runs two days over a weekend, plus usually a code sprint day and another day for workshops.The cost for last years conference in San Francisco was only around $80 so much more affordable. And they have the usual scholarships.
They have tentatively plan to hold the conference Mid April. For us the weather is a concern. On the bright side (like that ever happens in April) costs should be better. I believe we can make a case for holding it in the summer, but I'd like to hear everyone thoughts.
As the local host we are responsible for:
- initial bid - identifying venues - building an initial budget - getting deals with hotels & caterers - finding party locations for social events - The bulk of practical preparation and organizing on the ground; volunteers, venue, and social events
We are not responsible for fundraising, program, sponsors, registration, PR, video recording or website.
If there are areas we think the Chapter should handle we can push back. As and old friend said, this is all cast in jello.
By now you are probably wondering what a winning bid looks like. Take a look at Portland for 2012 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/BIDS/Portland. Looking at Portland Bid, here are the areas we can divide up to tackle the bid as a group.
- Good writers to craft the wiki - Describe the city - OpenStreetMap and Open Source GIS in Seattle - Entertainment/tourist activities - Organizing Team - Venue - Travel Costs - Public Transportation in Seattle (Can we get a deal from Car2Go?) - Budget
What I'm looking for from you to let me know which area you'd like to work on. Some of you might be going to FOSS4G in Portland (I'm so jealous) hopefully you'll have a chance to talk to the organizers to get a feel for what we should be doing to make a successful conference.
Thanks,
Clifford
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Collaboring with OpenStreetMap in *any* capacity is probably a win for us. Would you like to reach out to them and check about opportunities for collaboration? At the least, we might be able to talk about mapping and GIS on Wikipedia.
In the longer term, I am hoping that we can develop some ongoing collaboration with groups like OSM.
I have heard a number of people interested in having WikiConferece USA here in 2016 or 2017. If you'd like to take the lead on exploring how that would work, please do. It will be awhile before we make commitments but exploratory work now would be most welcome. I have some questions of my own about conferences in general that I'll probably discuss with WMF also.
Pine
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Raymond Leonard < raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
Cascadia Wikimedians,
If any of you collaborate with, or have an interest in working with, OpenStreetMap, this may interest you. OpenStreetMap Seattle will make a bid for the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference. If you want to help with the bid, you can find the meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/ or contact Clifford Snow.
In comments for the last Seattle WP:Meetup for August '14, *Blue Rasberry* wrote that there was hope that in 2-3 years there could be a meta:WikiConference USA https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA in Seattle or Portland. If any of us are so inclined, perhaps assisting for this bid for the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference, & then the subsequent preparation should the bid succeed, would help prepare us in our efforts to bring WikiConference USA to Cascadia.
Peaceray
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Clifford Snow clifford@snowandsnow.us Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: [opensource-107] Bid to host the 2015 State Of The Map-US Conference To: opensource-107-announce@meetup.com
We are going to prepare a bid to host the 2015 OpenStreetMap SOTM-US conference here. The request for bids will be made by the US chapter in late September and due by mid November. Everyone's help will be needed to craft a winning bid. I've only attended two SOTM-US conferences, but really enjoyed both. The conference runs two days over a weekend, plus usually a code sprint day and another day for workshops.The cost for last years conference in San Francisco was only around $80 so much more affordable. And they have the usual scholarships.
They have tentatively plan to hold the conference Mid April. For us the weather is a concern. On the bright side (like that ever happens in April) costs should be better. I believe we can make a case for holding it in the summer, but I'd like to hear everyone thoughts.
As the local host we are responsible for:
- initial bid
- identifying venues
- building an initial budget
- getting deals with hotels & caterers
- finding party locations for social events
- The bulk of practical preparation and organizing on the ground;
volunteers, venue, and social events
We are not responsible for fundraising, program, sponsors, registration, PR, video recording or website.
If there are areas we think the Chapter should handle we can push back. As and old friend said, this is all cast in jello.
By now you are probably wondering what a winning bid looks like. Take a look at Portland for 2012 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2012/BIDS/Portland. Looking at Portland Bid, here are the areas we can divide up to tackle the bid as a group.
- Good writers to craft the wiki
- Describe the city
- OpenStreetMap and Open Source GIS in Seattle
- Entertainment/tourist activities
- Organizing Team
- Venue
- Travel Costs
- Public Transportation in Seattle (Can we get a deal from Car2Go?)
- Budget
What I'm looking for from you to let me know which area you'd like to work on. Some of you might be going to FOSS4G in Portland (I'm so jealous) hopefully you'll have a chance to talk to the organizers to get a feel for what we should be doing to make a successful conference.
Thanks,
Clifford
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<quote who="Pine W" date="Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 08:00:03PM -0700">
In the longer term, I am hoping that we can develop some ongoing collaboration with groups like OSM.
I'd love to participate. I'm a consumer of OSM so far but I'd love to become more involved.
I have heard a number of people interested in having WikiConferece USA here in 2016 or 2017. If you'd like to take the lead on exploring how that would work, please do. It will be awhile before we make commitments but exploratory work now would be most welcome. I have some questions of my own about conferences in general that I'll probably discuss with WMF also.
If we wanted to host WCUSA at UW, I'd be happy to serve a faculty sponsor. I'm still quite new at UW so I'm not sure what is involved but this closely related to my research so I would be happy to help figure it out.
Later, Mako
In the longer term, I am hoping that we can develop some ongoing collaboration with groups like OSM.
I'd love to participate. I'm a consumer of OSM so far but I'd love to become more involved.
It appears they're currently doing similar things:
(Opensource-107 is OSM-Seattle Meetup)
-----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:15:04 -0400 From: Clifford Snow clifford@snowandsnow.us To: opensource-107@meetup.com Subject: [opensource-107] 2015 SOTM-US Formal Call for Bid
The formal call for bids from the US Chapter of OSM was just announced. You can read it at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2015 I'll create an rough outline of our bid on the wiki. Once it's done I'll get a note out to everyone. Please feel free to get a id on wiki.openstreetmap.org to be able to help edit our bid.
Thanks, Clifford
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